Childhood obesity and prevention in different socio-economic contexts

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 402-407

  Magnusson, Maria B ^a,b   Sjöberg, Agneta ^a   Kjellgren, Karin I ^a,c   Lissner, Lauren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Primary Health Care Clinic Angered   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Child; Emigrants and immigrants; Health behaviour; Obesity; Overweight; Primary prevention; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEDEN;

ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SWEDEN;

EID: 83155180327     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2011.09.019     Document Type: Article

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